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    <body><![CDATA[At the time <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/111050.July_s_People" title="July's People by Nadine Gordimer">July's People</a> was written, the scenario <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/55397.Nadine_Gordimer" title="Nadine Gordimer">Nadine Gordimer</a> imagines was one possible future for South Africa. Nelson Mandela was still imprisoned on Robben Island, and occasional riots and uprisings among black South Africans had been quelled by the superior firepower of the apartheid gover...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60155121">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[July's People is one of the best books I've read. I remember struggling to get through it in a university course and not even getting halfway through; this time it was an interesting and original work that I swallowed whole. Set in a South Africa where no white person is safe; the Smales family is r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43325161">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Well-written novela...probably much more shocking in its time as it explores concepts of power and role reversal in Apartheid era South Africa. An upper-middle class white family is forced to seek protection from their house &quot;boy&quot; in his village when violence breaks out. The social fabric ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38801945">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I think this book is a gem. Gordimer imagines a violent coup by the blacks in apartheid South Africa, and the changing dynamics between an urban white couple and their children,  and their black servant July, who shelters them in his village after they flee the danger and anarchy of the city.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved the writing style of this book.  The description, the dialogue, all add to the tension that evolves between the characters. One wonders about the Smales liberal-mindedness. I questioned which character I admire. This book is one for great discussion -- especially the ending.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[     July's People is the September book selection for my reading group; and, even though it is a short book, I found myself stuggling to get to the end.  I didn't like the book at all.  The author dumps the reader into a uprising/ riot situation in South Africa.  The white people in the story are s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63976602">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Nadine Gordimer is an amazing writer but it's hard to read.  An interesting perspective on apartheid.  A black family protects his boss' family and they see first hand how the living conditions are.  Eye opening.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Despite what my peers say, I kinda like July's People.  The language is a little hard to follow.  I should be doing journals for it right now, but instead I'm doing this.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a beautifully written novella. It perfectly encaptulates the hypothosis of race role reversal and political unrest in 1980's South Africa. Her best book by far!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Came to this one (a bit guiltily) from Theroux's &quot;Dark Star Safari.&quot;  How did I miss this?  The Nobel committee has great taste.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Fabulous novel about a white family from Johannisburg, forced to flee with their servant to his village.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Interesting book of servant protecting family and his village's acceptance of the family]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow.  What a story, especially in it's day.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA['July's People' is one of those books that sets the mood of a time. I thought Gordimer's subtle use of language to define complex emotional relationships was particularly impressive. Her treatment of race relations in apartheid South Africa through the story of a white family made the issues seem po...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12385063">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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